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points by tartoran 1 day ago | 0 comments
Which fumes are worse, from EVs or diesel filers?
[–] jordanb 1 day ago
You don't want to breathe either, but the answer generally is battery fires which can produce extremely toxic gas like hydrogen flouride

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lADLvwAJs-c

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_fluoride

[–] ourmandave 1 day ago
Yeah, that's on Derek Lowe's list of things he won't work with.

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-tou...

[–] close04 1 day ago
Honestly no idea. But after receiving multiple fire trainings and talking to trained firemen, I have to say that all else being equal (and gun to the head because I actually want neither) I'll take a diesel fire over a battery fire any day.

A lot of dangerous fumes come from the other material burning around the source. And at 1000C plenty of neighboring stuff decides to burn.